Jon Kyl: “Would the Senator from Vermont yield for a question from me regarding this unanimous consent request?”

The answer is yes, it's inadequate today.

It makes our planning much more difficult.

One of our recommendations concerns ways that we could potentially mitigate the risk of a deterrence gap.

Mr. Chairman, Representative Jacobs, the fact is that our current system has deteriorated and aged to the point that we wouldn't be confident in the deterrent value of it on out into the future.